Books That Don T Exist Quotes

“Ted Hughes' Crow on the Couch: A Wild Analysis”
― Max Porter, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“The Biologist’s Valediction to his Wife’ from Offcuts by Sherwin Stephens”
― Jim Crace, Being Dead

“The Goatherd’s Ancient Wisdom. Page 68, ‘A
Sorcery of Trees”
― Jim Crace, Being Dead

“Even death (according to the town’s resurrected folklore – Mondazy’s
work again) was watery. ‘We call it Fish,’ he wrote in his final memoir,
published more than thirty years ago.”
― Jim Crace, Being Dead

“A book – Calvino’s Antonyms – was on the floor.”
― Jim Crace, Being Dead

“This particular story, however, found no mention in his book on Collective Hallucination for the simple reason (so he confided once to a fellow colleague) that he himself played too intimate a part in it to form a competent judgment of the affair as a whole....”
― Algernon Blackwood, The Wendigo

“You may look in Browne Faber’s book, if you like, and you will find that to the present day men of science are unable to account for the presence, or to specify the functions, of a certain group of nerve cells in the brain.”
― Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan